Contexts

sociology for the public

Guest posts

Will You Accept This Rose? Colorblindness, Mixedness and Racism in Bachelor Nation

by Erica Chito Childs and hephzibah strmic-pawl
Photo by Meghan Schiereck on Unsplash Fifty years ago fewer than one percent of marriages in the … Read More

The Negotiated Livelihood of the Tribal Women Vendors of Koraput, India in times of the Pandemic

by Nupur Pattanaik
Tribal women selling vegetable in Semiliguda Block, Koraput Odisha, India (Photos taken by the author) The Covid-19 … Read More

Social Media in Society: A Positive or Negative Force?

by Tom Chiang Jr.
Photo by dole777 on Unsplash. I teach a college-level introductory sociology course where we discuss the … Read More

Is there anything positive coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic?

by Jacob Thomas
Photo by Adam Nieścioruk on Unsplash.   Social critics typically have the role of highlighting negative or … Read More

Pandemic Intensified Motherhood

by Laura Limonic
Photo by Alexander Dummer on Unsplash. I feel responsible for my son’s well-being –  his happiness, his … Read More

Cross University Collaboration for STEM Education and Social Justice

by Monica J. Carter, Luis A. Colón, Anna De Cheke Qualls, Kamla Deonauth, and Panos S. Shiakolas
Image by Harish Sharma (Source: Pixabay) Archbishop Desmond Tutu once said, “My humanity is bound up in … Read More

Coronavirus and Community: A Spring 2020 Course Fashioned Off Contexts’ Call for Papers on the Global Impacts of the Pandemic

by Rebecca A. London
Photo by Caniceus (Source: Pixabay). As the world moved to remote teaching and learning this past spring, … Read More

The damage done

by Marco Z. Garrido
Photo by Fred Moon on Unsplash. The storming of the US Capitol building came as a shock … Read More

Kim Ng’s rise does not solve baseball’s gender and race problems

by Margaret M. Chin
A panoramic view of Miami Marlins Park. (Photo by David Aughinbaugh II. Source: Flickr, CC) Kim Ng’s … Read More

Empathy is Hard. What We Need is (Sociological) Imagination

by Clare L. Stacey
Photo by David Drexler (Source: Flickr) I live in the liberal bubble of Kent, Ohio, home to … Read More

About Contexts

Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge social research accessible to general readers. We're the public face of sociology.

It is a publication of the American Sociological Association, edited by Amin Ghaziani and Seth Abrutyn (University of British Columbia), with Letta Page.